[Numpy-discussion] Numpy arrays shareable among related processes (PR #7533)

[Sturla Molden]

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> When writing C code to interact with buffer-providing objects, you
> usually don't bother with memoryviews at all.  You just use a Py_buffer
> structure.

I was taking about "typed memoryviews" which is a Cython abstraction for a
Py_buffer struct. I was not taking about Python memoryviews, which is
something else. When writing Cython code that interacts with a buffer we
usually use typed memoryviews, not Py_buffer structs directly.

Sturla